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Capitol CEGer phil took the passenger side airbag I was giving away to use an an educational demonstration for his children.
From phil:
"I wanted some visual feedback for the kids - so I stretched a rope between two trees in my back yard, and hung a soccer ball down from it, right in front of the airbag.
I had intended for the "attachment" point above the soccer ball to remain stationary (and the soccer ball just rotate around it).
Wrong: The force of airbag impact on the ball dragged the attachment point 30' down the overhead rope. Wow."
Thank you to Kokopellian for hosting:
Airbag demonstration Please Right-click and Save As
Thank you to phil for the video and demo!
Enjoy!
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My Cars
1999 Silver Frost SVT - 80,000km #2603/2760 Aug. 10, 1999.
1996 Mercury Mystique LS V6 MTX - retired @ 323,151km.
1995 Ford Contour V6 MTX-sold @ 214,000km
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I totally gotta see this!
EDIT: wow, that was sweet! I wish I had my HS physics intructors email still... he would love to see that!
Definitely cool enough for a permalink on my host: http://www.likwid-kaneo.com/storage/videos/ceg/airbag.mpeg
So yeah, I probly won't delete that, and my account is paid for 3yrs...
Last edited by Big Daddy Kane; 04/11/06 02:29 AM.
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Holy cow! That sound like a gun going off. Is that how it really reacts in an accident? I might consider wearing a helmet while I'm driving now.  That was a great demo for us accident virgins.
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Originally posted by Kerry2Kool4U:
Holy cow! That sound like a gun going off. Is that how it really reacts in an accident? I might consider wearing a helmet while I'm driving now.
That was a great demo for us accident virgins.
This would explain why people often have broken fingers after head on collisions, because they keep their hands right around the bottom half of the steering wheel, NEVER hold your hands down there... unless you want to have something on your hand broken. I keep my hands at 10 and/or 2....
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TEIN H.Tech Springs
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You're welcome Pete. That kicked arse! I wanna do mine now! Darnit, sold the FSVT ones already! 
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Holy crap!!! I'm going to show that to my mom and sister, my sister likes to put her feet up on the airbag and doesn't believe anyone when we tell her what can happen.
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I think I'm going to take my airbags out of my car now.
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We did that in auto class, set them off facing up on the ground, they'ld jump like 10 feet i nthe air when they went off. 
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Originally posted by Matt R:
Holy crap!!! I'm going to show that to my mom and sister, my sister likes to put her feet up on the airbag and doesn't believe anyone when we tell her what can happen.
my sister does the same thing and doesn't believe that it could crush bouth her legs because "airbags were made to save people, not hirt them" classic public school thinking
kinda glad mine didn't go off when i rear ended that explorer at 45 mph.
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"The whole Judy Garland thing kinda turned me on. That doesn't make me some sort of fag does it?
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